GDPR/Anonimise IP Addresses

  • Resolved K9Heaven

    (@k9heaven)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    Can you confirm please if your plugin collects any data or sends any data to any other servers?

    Also, whilst I really like your plugin, I believe it poses issues where GDPR compliance is concerned because the user’s IP address is saved to the database. Are you able to anonimise the IP address perhaps by replacing the last digits with a 0 so an IP address of 55.567.123.140 would be saved in the database as 55.567.123.0?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Faiyaz Alam

    (@faiyazalam)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    The plugin uses only a third party API service to get user location info based on IP.

    Here is the API:
    https://tools.keycdn.com/geo.json?host=IP_ADDRESS

    I also gave a setting (Geo Tracker) to enable\disable this feature.

    There is a filter faulh_before_save_login that you can use to modify IP Address or any other data just prior to save into the database.

    Note: This filter is not officially released yet [till version 1.7.0]. The name of this filter may be changed in future version and even the filter can be removed. So you have to change your code accordingly.

    Hope this will help.

    Thanks for asking these queries. This will definitely help other users as well.

    Regards,
    Faiyaz

    Thread Starter K9Heaven

    (@k9heaven)

    5 years, 4 months ago

    Hi

    Thank you for coming back to me. I confirm I already have the geo tracker disabled but I noticed User’s IP addresses are still being saved to my database hence my question. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction but I’m still learning about using filters and I think this one is beyond me at the moment!

    I think I’ll wait to use your plugin on my live sites until the filter is released officially so I can confidently state that I’m not collecting personal data by using it.

    Keep up the good work though!

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